The Trump Administration has made much of its military defeat of ISIS,
portraying the group as virtually wiped out and hyping the victory in
Syria to such a point that for a time he was even intending to withdraw
from Syria outright.
Having backed away from the Syria pullout, the Pentagon is now hard at work trying to shore up commitments from the 79 members of the anti-ISIS coalition, Officials insist they need to keep the coalition together to fight wars against ISIS worldwide in the future.
What was originally meant to be a temporary coalition for an “emergency”
situation with ISIS is also being portrayed as a very permanent thing
now by US officials, with Assistant Secretary of Defense Kathryn
Wheelbarger arguing that the coalition needs to stay together to
maintain “stability” in general.
She said the war against ISIS would look a lot different now than it has
in the past, but that keeping these forces unified for the purposes of
intelligence-sharing and training would be needed to keep fighting ISIS.
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan says that the battle is “far
from complete,” and tried to present not staying in the unified
coalition as complacence. Officials sought to emphasize the presence of
ISIS affiliates across the world.
And yet while ISIS has a proper affiliate in Afghanistan, with a
presence mostly confined to a single province, a lot of the other groups
seem to be ISIS in name only, embracing the label as a way to try to
gain notoriety.
The presence of so many such factions in so many remote parts of the
world is a perfect recipe for a forever coalition, one with increasingly
nebulous goals, but which the Pentagon seems to believe they can keep
much of the world chained to going forward.
Are we the idiots who believe that Al-Qaeda or ISIS or any other militant group can exist without a state sponsor?
So, the coalition is pretending to NOT know who is paying, arming or feeding these groups? Since all of them are Sunni groups, we can eliminate Iran. Who then? As if it will be hard to get them off the internet, insure they have no vehicles or gas. These groups do not live in deserts — they are the creation of our own friends and allies. And ohr own money. In Syria, we “vetted” them, armed and paid. Then they “disappeared”. In congressional testimony we were only able to still find FOUR. As if we did not know where djd they go with OUR laptols. So, create trouble makers, then have a “coalition”
Ready to stick its nose into other people’s business — in the name of defending them. Nice make believe wars — how can an ordinary person capitalize on the scam.
I’m waiting for a news conference where MSM reporters break out laughing at the notion that US “boots on the ground” are actually in Syria to fight ISIS, and that those head-choppers didn’t have the full support of CIA/Mossad from the get go. Of course, those reporters would immediately be cut from the CIA payroll so it probably will never happen.
Lets not forget the support ISIS had from our dear ally, Israel. Should be enough to cut off that 3.8 billion but lets not hold our breath on that happening.